Flushing system



Aug. 21, 1923.

A. HOBECK ET AL FLUSHING SYSTEM Filed Feb. 5, 1921 `FkC 3 4.112 f/ f/ f .f.\. C ad 3 f P. 5 m

Patented Aug. 2l, 1923.

`rreo "res AUGUSTUS HOBECK AND JOHN LAUGHLIN, TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA.

f FLUSHING SYSTEM.

Application filed February 5, 1921. Serial No; 442,820.V

object of the invention is to devise a flushl ing system that will be simple in operation, low in cost and which can be installed with the minimum of trouble.

A further object is to devise a system in which the tank, instead of being placed immediately above the water closet, can be situated in the wall or in any other desirable place thus economizing in space in the bathroom.

A still further object is to construct an operating valve that will close automatically.

Our invention consists of a flushing system constructed and arranged substantially as hereinafter more particularly described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which:

Fig. 1 represents a side elevation of our system, showing the tank in section.

Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the water control valve.

Fig. 3 is a plan view thereof with the dome shaped top of the casing removed, and

F ig. 4 is a vertical section of the tank air valve.

Like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different views:

1 is a water closet. 2 is the water control valve. 3 is the water tank. 4 is a water inlet pipe to the tank from the water main. 5 is a Water outlet pipe from the tank leading to the control valve 2. 6 is a pipe leading from the control valve 2 tothe water closet. 7 is an air inlet pipe in the top of the water tank 3 having a conical valve-seat 8 at the bottom end thereof. 9 is a conical air valve adapted to seat on the valve-seat 8 and freely supported in a hanger bearing 10 through which the valve stem 11 extends.

12 is a link connecting the valve stem with a float 13. 14 is the lower portion of the control valve casing suitably connected to the pipe 6the upper vend. 15 being closed and provided with a port 16. 17 'is the'l upper portion *of` the-control valve casingI preferably constructed of dome shape and suitably connected to the pipe 5. 18 is a slide valve adapted to slide'on the upper end 15 of the portion 14 of the casing which constitutes a seat therefor, said slide valve having a port 19 therein. 2O is a hollow boss extending through the valve 18.'

' 21 is a cross spindle freely journalled in thelower portion 14 of the valve casing. 22 is a pin extending upwardly therefrom, its upper end being inserted into the hollow boss 20. 23 is an arm secured to the spindle 21 exteriorly of the valve casing and hav-v ing the operating handle 24 suitably secured to such arm intermediately of the length thereof. Y

The operation of the system is as follows: 'Assuming that the tank is full as shown in IFigure 1, in order to flush the closet, the lever 24 is thrown backthus turning the spindle 21 and the pin 22. The pin 22 V will bear against the wall of the boss 20 and movethe valve 18 forwardly until the port 19 therein registers with the port. 16 in the upper end 15 ofthe portion 14.

The water in the tank will now flow do-wn through the pipe 5, through the control valve and ports 19 and'16 into the pipe 6 and into the closet 1, thus flushing the latter. l

The pressure of the water entering the dome shaped portion 17 of the valve casing will keep the valve 18 down against Ythe upper end or seat 15 and prevent the valve closing as would otherwise occur as the operating lever 24 is designed so that it will not be thrown into a vertical position and consequently immediately the pressure on the valve is released on the tank emptying, the weight of such lever will cause the valve 18 tobe drawn back by gravity into the closed position illustrated in Figure 2.

Simultaneously with the flushing operation the float 13 will drop when the tank is emptied, and thus open the air valve 9. `When this occurs the water from the inlet pipe 4 will again fill the tank upon the valve 18 being restored to the closed position. Immediately the tank 3 is filledto the desired extent the water therein will A Hushing system for water closets, and oner that can be installed cheaply and with the minimum of trouble.

What we claim as our invention` is: An automatically closing manually operatedlluelnngy valve for water closets comvprising "a lower casing portion having a closed. 'upper end' with a port therein, a

slide valve with a port therein sliding on said upper end of the lower portion of the casing, an upper casing. portion suitalol)7 secured tothe lower casing portion, a cross spindle freely journalled in the lower portion or' the casing, a hollow Vloossextending through the slide valve and closed at its upper end7 a pin on the spindle inserted into the hollow boss,:an 'arm on the spindle and kan operating lever secured to said arm intermediately of the length of the same.

f AllGrUEi'lUSv HBECK. JOHN LAUGHLLNJ.

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